Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Olney to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, October 31, 1895.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 26th instant in relation to the tax levied on United States vessels entering and clearing from Canadian ports, which you observe is still under consideration, and that it will receive prompt attention.

I have received a letter from the Treasury Department of the 29th instant making inquiry touching the subject, and adding that the season of lake navigation is nearly ended for the year.

In view of this circumstance and of your present announcement, permit me to express the hope that the Department may, at an early date, be acquainted with the decision of Her Majesty’s Government upon the subject after it shall have been placed in possession of the report from the Canadian authorities referred to in Lord Gough’s note of September 19, 1895.

I have, etc.,

Richard Olney

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